Case no. | Age/ gender | Location of death | Activity at death | Time2-150 | Previous symptoms or clinical diagnosis | Cause of death |
Sudden cardiac death | ||||||
1 | 19/M | DOA | Exercise | <15 min | Asymptomatic | Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy |
2 | 18/M | DOA | Exercise | <15 min | Ventricular tachycardia. Syncope during exercise | Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy |
3 | 18/M | OH | Exercise | <15 min | Syncope during exercise | Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy |
4 | 19/F | DOA | Sedentary | <15 min | Frequent headache | Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy |
5 | 18/M | OH | Sedentary | <15 min | Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Mild mitral inssuficiency. Family history of SD | Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy |
6 | 19/M | OH | Death in bed | Morbid obesity. Psychiatric antecedents | Dilated cardiomyopathy | |
7 | 1/M | DOA | Sedentary | <15 min | Tetralogy of Fallot. Palliative operation months earlier | Tetralogy of Fallot |
8 | 9/M | DOA | Exercise | <15 min | Physiological heart murmurs 5 years before death | Anomalous origin of LAD coronary from pulmonary trunk |
9 | 19/M | DOA | Sedentary | <15 min | Asymptomatic | Myocarditis |
10 | 15/M | DOA | Exercise | <15 min | WPW during first year of life, later asymptomatic | Wolf–Parkinson–White syndrome |
Sudden death of non-cardiac origin | ||||||
11 | 16/M | OH | Sedentary | <15 min | Asthma. Cardiac arrhythmias with normal ECG | Unexpected SD in asthmatic |
12 | 18/M | DOA | Exercise | <15 min | Asthma. Physiological heart murmur | Unexpected SD in asthmatic |
13 | 18/M | ER | Sedentary | 15–60 min | Asthma. Upper airway infection prior to death | Unexpected SD in asthmatic |
14 | 1/F | DOA | Death in bed | Fever. Treated with antipyretics and antibiotics | Acute viral laryngitis | |
15 | 9/M | ER | Sedentary | 15–60 min | Asymptomatic | Bronchopneumonia |
16 | 18/M | ER | Sedentary | 1–6 h | Neurofibromatosis in lungs. Arterial hypertension due to bilateral renal artery stenosis surgically corrected at 12 years | Lung haemorrhage secondary to neurofibromatosis |
17 | 14/M | ER | Sedentary | <15 min | Asymptomatic. Headache 24 hours before death | Subarachnoid haemorrhage |
18 | 12/M | DOA | Sedentary | <15 min | Urinary infection a month before | Subarachnoid haemorrhage |
19 | 12/F | DOA | Sedentary | <15 min | Migraine with an aura | Brain haemorrhage secondary to AVM |
20 | 2/M | DOA | Sedentary | 1–6 h | Myelomeningocoele lumbar with derivative valve | Arnold–Chiari malformation |
21 | 19/F | OH | Death in bed | Epilepsy | Unexplained SD in epileptic | |
22 | 4/M | ER | Sedentary | 1–6 h | Asymptomatic | Diabetic coma |
23 | 2/M | ER | Sedentary | 1–6 h | Asymptomatic | Fulminant meningococcaemia |
Sudden death of unexplained origin | ||||||
24 | 4/M | OH | Death in bed | Diarrhoea 2 days before death | SD of unexplained origin | |
25 | 13/F | DOA | Unknown | <15 min | Three episodes of vagal syncope and bradycardia | SD of unexplained origin |
26 | 14/M | DOA | Sedentary | <15 min | Asymptomatic | SD of unexplained origin |
27 | 1/F | DOA | Death in bed | Asymptomatic | SD of unexplained origin | |
28 | 2/M | DOA | Death in bed | Asymptomatic | SD of unexplained origin | |
29 | 18/F | DOA | Death in bed | Anorexia nervosa 2 years previously (recovery), cinestosis, ventricular extrasystole | SD of unexplained origin | |
30 | 16/M | DOA | Sedentary | <15 min | Asymptomatic | SD of unexplained origin |
31 | 16/F | OH | Sedentary | Unknown | Recent trip. Antimalarial treatment | SD of unexplained origin |
32 | 19/M | DOA | Exercise | <15 min | Growth retardation treated with growth hormone. Salbutamol on requirement. Syncope during exercise and near syncope | SD of unexplained origin |
33 | 17/M | DOA | Sedentary | <15 min | Acne on retinoic acid treatment. Surgery of ureter stenosis when 1 year old | SD of unexplained origin |
34 | 17/F | DOA | Death in bed | Probable syncope considered as seizures with normal neurological examination | SD of unexplained origin |
↵2-150 Interval between onset of symptoms to death.
AVM, arteriovenous malformation; DOA, death on arrival to emergency room; ER, death in emergency room; LAD, left anterior descending; OH, outside hospital death; SD, sudden death.